The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06

long duration.
8. The employees of the New York, Seventh
avenue, Fourth avenue, Sixth avenue and
Broadway surface roads strike successfully
for reduction of hours.
MARCH.
8. BROOKLYN street car lines all stied up"
5. General tie up of the street railroads
Of New York city. 1t required $50 police
men to force car through Grand street,
where great crowd had assembled.
g. Five hundred men, knights OF Labor.
employed in the Missouri Pacific railroad
shops at st. Louis, quit work ct the blowing
of the noon whistle. One thousand other en-
ployes who were also knights also struck.
The freight business OF the road is paralyzed
2. Secret meeting held at st. Louis, at
which the passenger engineers, brakemen,
switchmen and fire,nen of the Missouri Pa-
cif1c system decided to join the freight ham
dlerss and carshop strike. Accordingly none
| of them reported for work, and 6,000 miles
OF road idle. Immense freight blockade.
0. Employees of the Troy and Lansingburg
street railroad at Troy, N. Y, struck for
| fewer Lodrs of work. Demands granted.
Q. Five Thousand employees Of the "Gouid"
| railroad system were discharged on the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
49, Vice-President H. NJ Hoxie, OF the
Missouri Pacific railroad, declines to confer
| with the Kni Is Of Labor or a committee
| from the strikes.
%. Hoxie has n conference with Governors
| Marmaduke and Martin at St Louis.
| %. Jay Gould accepted a proposal for ar
| bitration. Mr.. Powderly orders the men to
work.
90 The district assemblies K of L. refuse
| to obey Powderly's order, and instruct the
| Missouri Pacific strikers not to resume work.
81. Martin Iro;is issues q general order to
the Knights to resume work on the Missouri
] Pacific.
81 Six hundred and fifty morocco workers
| of Wilmington quit work.
81. Strike OF Cohoes spinners ended About
1900 persons affected.
l. The strike on the Gould roads has been
| resumed on account Of tho refusal of the COM
| pany to reinstate ell tho strikers.
8. "Dloody Saturday" at Fort Worth,
| Texas Strikers resist the movement of
trains, firing volley of Winchester rifles into
| posse of deputy sheriffs, killing one and
| mortally wounding two others. The officers
| replied with revolvers killing one striker.
| s. Mr.. Powderly formally recalls his order
/ to the Missouri Pacific strikers to resume
| work
| O. Deputy sheriffs in East St. Louis fire
into crowd, killing seven persons, only one
| of whom was striker:
Il Powderly makes an appeal to Gould for
| the settlement Of the southwestern strike.
Gould replies, jus.ifying his action ard re.
| fusing to grant the request Of the Knights for
| arbitration.
16. A general tie up ordered on the New
York City Third Avenue Street railway.
16 Martin Irons, the leader in the great
| southwestern strike is, with three others, i'll
dicted by the grand grand jury at ST. Louis,
for tampering with telegraph wires,
Is. Widow Laudgraff boycotted in New
York city for employing non-union bakers.
10. The Third avenue street car strikers,
| New York city, wreck q car end have q
short but savage fight with tho police.
10 The great tic up Of the New York city
street railroads is off, with the exception Of
| tho Third avenue line.
+ 90 Trains arc running without nolestation
| on the Gould roads, although tho strikers
| still profess to be confident Of ultimate sue
cess
| 90. The house committee at Washington
begins its investigation Of the strike on the
Gould roads. 1t was continued for some
time. ...
Is. ugar house employees at williamsburg.
| N. Y, OH strike for an increase Of wages.
| 2s. Thirty-fivo members of tho New York
Tailors' union indicted by tho grand jury for
boycoeting.
| 81. The striking operatives of the Missouri
Car company have resumed work. The Bal
timore street car strike has also come to an
end.
| q. The Third avenue street car strikers,
| New York city, put OH free coaches for the
| accommodation of persons who would other
wise be compelled to ride in tho cars
30 Chairman O'Donne1l, Secretary Best,
and Graham, Hughes and Downing, of the
Empire Protective association, indicted by
the grand jury ct New York for ordering the
tie UP Of the Third avenue cars
| NAY.
| 1. Chicago trades unions demand a uniform
working day of eight hours, without reduc-
ton OF wages Tho same demands ara made
in many other cities.
| l. Forty thousand men in Chicago 60 on
strike for eight hours. Strikes for similar
cause arc general ell over the country.
4. An attempt by the Chicago police to dis
perse q meeting of Anarchists was followed
by riot in whic,, a dynamite bomb was
| thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
killing six and wopading sixty one.
s. Rioters fired Upon and several killed by
the state militia ct Milwaukee, Wis.
| 5, Mora shooting occurred at Chicago be-
tween tho police and Anarchists, and leading
| rioters were arrested.
| g. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
0. Tia piaroma.crs CT New York have
abandoned their demand for 2 reduction 70
| eight hours Q day.
| TO- Big strike az Chicago ended.
| 10. About 1900 girls, employees of the
Troy, IT. Y, collar and cuff factories, locked
! out by the manufacturers on account Of the
strike Ct the laundry girls at George T. Ide 6
| Co. 3 establishment,
c4. Eight thousand tailors locked out by
! tho Boss Tai.ors' union, New York city.
JUNE,
! g. John uo5.., convicted of melting to riot,
was sentenced to Imprisonment a. hard labor
for one year and to pay a fine of $500 at Now
York.
/ 8 The convention of Knights o. Labor, at
Cleveland, closed. The differences with the
| trades unions were not satisfactorily adjusted.
/ 4 Female members Of tho familie, OF the
striking Chicago railroad men stop trains by
standing upon the tracks.
s. Fourteen thousand horse car men, Of
New York, Brooklyn and Long Island City,
| quit work.
9. The Empire Protective association Gives
up the fight against the Third Avenue road.
| II. At the meeting of tho Brotherhood of
Telegraphers, at Kansas City, it was decided
to join the Knights of Labor.
Is. The Lake Shore switchmen at Chicago,
out on strike, became very demonstratiye; .
train of cars thrown oil tho track
| JULY.
| 81. Union employees Of fourteen New York
| cigar factories locked out.
8. Tho men who distributed boycott circu-
lars referring to the Widow Landgraff's
bakery were convicted at New York, before
| Judge Barrett, and sentenced to terms of i'm
prisonment of from ten 70 thirty days
Is. The National Cigarinakers' union with
drew from the knights of Labor.
| AUGUST
16. The cigarma,sers Of New York, who
/ had been on strike for some time, determined
/ to resume work.
90. Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who were
on trial for the Haymarket riot ai!d bomb
| throwing were convicted, Spies, Schwab,